@article{Silverman1994,
  author    = {Silverman, Doris K.},
  title     = {Classical, modern, and postmodern psychoanalysis: Epistemic transformations},
  journal   = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 04 (1994), pp. 101-128.},
  year      = {1994},
  abstract  = {This paper addresses some assumptions underlying psychoanalytic theories. It uses Rorty's concepts of philosophy and poetry to capture distinctions: the former a search for universal truths and the latter an emphasis on meanings in discourse. Freud's embeddedness in 19th-century positivism organized his metatheorical assumptions, while some object relational theorists are inclined toward a con-structivist point of view. For many theoreticians these two vantage points overlap others insist on a sundering of the two. I maintain that polarizing these two positions is not useful. Both philosophical stances ask different kinds of questions and both types of questions are important for a general as well as clinical theory of psychoanalysis.},
  language  = {en}
}